{"version":1,"name":"Battle at Lanka, from the Mewar Ramayana by Sahib Din (Sahibdin) (1652, within the manuscript programme of 1649–1653)","paintingName":"Battle at Lanka, from the Mewar Ramayana","artist":"Sahib Din (Sahibdin)","date":"1652, within the manuscript programme of 1649–1653","artistUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive?artist=Sahib%20Din%20%28Sahibdin%29","medium":"Ink and colour on paper","dimensions":"Exact dimensions of this folio have not been verified","location":"British Library, London; Add MS 15297(1), folio 91r","period":"Seventeenth-century Mewar painting","culture":"Udaipur, Mewar, Rajasthan","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/battle-at-lanka-ramayana","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/images/artworks/battle-at-lanka-ramayana.jpg","publishedUtc":null,"summary":"A battlefield becomes a sequence of stories within one painted page. Monkeys leap across elephants, chariots collide, and a three-headed warrior appears more than once, while blue-skinned Rama watches from the upper left. This is a folio from the lavish Mewar Ramayana, a court manuscript whose pictures connect an epic struggle with the ambitions and ancestry of its royal patrons.","text":"Part of the Mewar Ramayana commissioned for Maharana Jagat Singh and completed under his successor Raj Singh. The scene belongs to the Yuddha Kanda, the epic's war book. 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Losty, The Mewar Ramayana at the British Library: How the complete digital version came to be","url":"https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2014/06/13/mewar-ramayana/","publisher":"LSE South Asia; republication of the British Library curator's account","sourceType":"archive"},{"id":"s5","title":"Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, The Ramayana of Valmiki: The Complete English Translation, index entries for Trisiras","url":"https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/RG310-Hein/9780691206868.pdf","publisher":"Princeton University Press; Yale Library copy","sourceType":"academic"},{"id":"s6","title":"British Library: Rama and Lakshmana bound, from the same Yuddha Kanda manuscript","url":"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/12459256854","publisher":"British Library official account","sourceType":"archive"},{"id":"s7","title":"Add MS 15295–15297 collection catalogue","url":"https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-002087001","publisher":"British Library","sourceType":"archive"},{"id":"s8","title":"J. P. 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